Angus McKinnon Young Quotes

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Play
  • Kid
  • Back

• That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Different
  • Play
  • Joy

• It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stage
  • Comparison
  • Unfair

• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
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  • Best

• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Cool
  • Travel
  • Guitar

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Moment

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Weird

• I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Play
  • Thought
  • Window

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Team
  • Nice
  • Play

• In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Protecting

• The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • People
  • World
  • Nice

• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Nature
  • Human

• Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Career
  • Experiences
  • Expose

• Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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  • Stage
  • Guitar